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Guilty as charged.

I had - thought Tony M would have had your head on a plate for the square jaw comment.

TheHowieLama RIP

What's not to like? Put a good film on, enjoy.

Just saying

2. ARCHAIC•LITERARY travelling in search of adventure. "that same lady errant" Kudos if it's this definition.

The question was about the strength of transwomen v cis women, not whether women with lower T levels are men. My question was reasonable.

Are you suggesting the length of time the trans woman has been taking GA hormones should be disregarded?

Tempted by the songs that mention other artists thread and the fucking ace tunes thread, but the video cracks me up so here:

I think this is the concern that Rico was referring to: Why are trans people now excluded? Nikki da Costa, a former director of legislative affairs at No 10, told the BBC on Friday that a ban would have had “profound consequences for children struggling with gender dysphoria. It would create a situation where doctors, therapists, even parents would be deterred from exploring with a child any feelings of what else may be going on for fear of being told they’re trying to change a child’s identity. And that is deeply concerning.” My question is why not ban trans conversion therapy and make an exception for medical situations where gender dysphoria is being diagnosed? As things stand, you've now got the problem that more extreme versions of conversion therapy will be legal. This is from the BMA “In fact, ‘conversion therapy’ has been debunked countless times as an unethical and damaging practice that preys on victims of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and bullying. For those subjected to it, it can also increase the risk of long-lasting psychological harm, substance abuse, or even suicide. Many acts of conversion therapy amount to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment - a violation of international and UK law. That the Government can recognise a set of practices, methods and activities as ‘abhorrent’, damaging and cruel for one group but suggest that those same practices, methods and activities can be acceptably perpetrated on another group is profoundly troubling.

I would have thought that La'an Noonien-Singh, given her relative, would be Lt Badass; I'd be disappointed if she wasn't. It's like Lt. B'Elanna Torres never existed. Asexual? Are you sure you don't just mean short hair cut and no heaving cleavage? And wouldn't that be Lieutenant Tasha Yar?

I think SasaS asked a fair question. In the United States, the words ‘school’, ‘college’, and ‘university’ are used interchangeably in speech when referring to higher education institutions. Out of the three, ‘college’ is the most frequently used one.

Depends how far the dementia has progressed. I'd phone the Dementia UK helpline if I were you.

Please watch Dredd - I'm willing to bet you'll think it's a great film and regret not voting for Ma-Ma.

I've read that the landlord of the pub changed the name for a laugh and that the pregnancy question has been on many hospital forms for years. (apologies if your post was ironic - with this thread it's sometimes difficult to know),

I think it depends on the sport. According to the scientific paper Rico linked, the advantage of having gone through puberty as a male has less impact on some sports, for example rowing (which surprised me). I can imagine there are some sports where being trans would be a disadvantage, for example diving (changes to body would change centre of mass and therefore what had been practised before transition would no longer be immediately helpful).

Out of curiosity, if there were a valid test, how would your views change, Rico?

Fair point initially - you described the article. You must decide whether referring to a transwoman as a man is name calling; I'm not going to berate you for it but won't do it myself. I think the argument is about whether there is an unfair advantage so I put it to you that simply looking at pictures and videos isn't sufficient to answer that question (greater mass but weaker muscles would not be advantageous). My view isn't, to my mind, ideological - if you present evidence that Lia Thomas did have an unfair advantage, I'll say fair enough. Rico's articles did make me think but they aren't dealing with people who have been on GAHT for three years nor is the data from athletes. I thought the article I posted was interesting because it compared Lia to other professionals. That her time for the 500 yards was 9 seconds slower than the record holder's time surprised me - how is that possible? Really not sure to make about your second paragraph - swimmers don't do it for me (hockey players, on the other hand, do).